anonon2
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I'm making MoreBeer's Doppel Bock and have looked all over, only to find precious little information about how to actually deal with the lagering. I have a nice fermentation controller that's been handling the temperature of the primary, but I'm a bit at a loss on what to do now.
Lagers botttom ferment, so if I rack to a secondary am I leaving all of my active yeast behind? If I then lager at a low temperature in the secondary does my yeast crash out? If so, then what happens when I prime with sugar and bottle? Are there still active yeasts there to create my carbonation? If I add another yeast strain on top of the WLP 833 with which I fermented (e.g. US-05) am I in danger of restarting the fermentation and creating bottle bombs?
Please help with advice, even pointers to good references. Google hasn't been as helpful at this one as I'd like.
Lagers botttom ferment, so if I rack to a secondary am I leaving all of my active yeast behind? If I then lager at a low temperature in the secondary does my yeast crash out? If so, then what happens when I prime with sugar and bottle? Are there still active yeasts there to create my carbonation? If I add another yeast strain on top of the WLP 833 with which I fermented (e.g. US-05) am I in danger of restarting the fermentation and creating bottle bombs?
Please help with advice, even pointers to good references. Google hasn't been as helpful at this one as I'd like.